IM Donaldson examines Fischers life and career from his days as a child prodigy through the height of his World Championship triumph and into his tumultuous final years. Donaldsons meticulous research has uncovered previously lost games and a wealth of unknown material about Fischer -- ranging from his close friendships with players and supporters to his acrimonious relationships with organisers, journalists, lawyers, and publishers. Bobby Fischer and His World is brought to life through a potpourri of first-hand accounts, interviews, letters, and articles by and about the colourful characters that inhabited Fischers world. Unifying this wide-ranging tale are over 100 photos and illustrations and 99 newly annotated games. This is the story of Fischer the man and the player, shedding new light on the riddle of the most famous chessplayer in history. International Master John Donaldson is a player, a chess journalist and historian, and a thirteen-time United States World Chess Olympiad coach (his 2016 team won gold).
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All the regular features of the UK's best-selling CHESS magazine and more! Regular features include: How Good is Your Chess? by GM Daniel King, Saunders on Chess, Find the Winning Moves, Never Mind the Grandmasters..., Studies, Home & Overseas News, Forthcoming Events Calendar and Book Reviews.
In this issue:
Editorial
Malcolm Pein on the latest developments in the game
A Clean Sweep, and a Close Shave!
Andrew Ledger reports from an exciting final weekend of the 4NCL season
60 Seconds with... Axel Smith
The Swedish GM gave a huge blindfold simul and has a new book out
Small Margins
Paul Littlewood reports from the World Senior Team Chess Championships
The Comeback
Carlsen won his final three games then the playoff in Malmo
The Brightest Star?
Carl Strugnell on the specialness of 14-year-old Turkish superstar Yagiz Kaan
Forthcoming Events
Will you be playing at Crewe, Edinburgh, the MindSports Centre or elsewhere?
Studies with Stephenson
Brian pays tribute to the composing giant that is Harold van der Heijden
How Good is Your Chess?
Daniel King looks at how Rameshbabu Vaishali likes to play on the front foot
The Beauty in Chess
Jon Crumiller on Sir António Horta-Osório’s dazzling collection of chess sets
Find The Winning Moves
Can you do as well as the players at the final 4NCL weekend of the season?
Under the Hammer
John Henderson takes a look at the auction of Lothar Schmid’s collection
Chasing Dreams
Ben Graff thoroughly enjoyed being out and about at the Menorca Open
Menorca Masterclass
Daniel Fernandez explains how he outplayed the 2024 World Rapid Champion
Never Mind the Grandmasters
Carl Portman on his last round game at the UK Armed Forces Championships
How to Beat a Grandmaster
Paul Littlewood looks at an impressive game by a young Jon Speelman
Key Encounters
Some more of the best chess from the FIDE Candidates and the TePe Sigeman
Overseas News
Hans Niemann won the opening leg of the 2026 Grand Chess Tour in Poland
Home News
Popular weekenders took place in Belfast, Blackpool, Bournemouth and elsewhere
This Month’s New Releases
Sean Marsh enjoyed the return of Neil McDonald, with his new book on strategy
Saunders on Chess
John on Eugene Colman and his contribution to the Two Knights Defence
In Schach 4/2026 finden Sie Berichte über folgende Veranstaltungen/Themen:
* Vorschau Kandidatenturnier
* Umfrage Kandidatenturnier
* Schachfestival Prag, Schach960 in Weissenhaus
* Herren-Bundesliga, Frauen-Bundesliga
* Fragebogen: Ding Liren
* Kombinationsschule, Problemschach, Turnierausschreibungen, Rezension
* Mitarbeiter dieser Ausgabe: Luis Engel, Stefan Löffler, Peter Nielsen, Franz Pachl, Michael Prusikin
Ein Lehrbuch des Schachspiels auf ganz neuartiger Grundlage
„Mein System“ erschien zunächst in den Jahren 1925/26 in fünf Lieferungen jeweils als Broschüre und wurden vom Berliner Schachverleger Bernhard Kagan herausgegeben.
Das Buch ist aufgeteilt in zwei Teile: „Die Elemente“ beschäftigt sich mit den Grundlagen der Schachstrategie wie z.B. Zentrum und Entwicklung, offene Turmlinien, die 7. und 8. Reihe, Freibauern etc. Im zweiten Teil wird dann auf dieser Grundlage „Das Positionsspiel“ behandelt: Prophylaxe und Zentrum, Doppelbauer und Hemmung, eigene starke und schwache Bauern bzw. Punkte etc. Über alle Kapitel verteilt gibt es Partiebeispiele, zumeist aus der eigenen Praxis des Autors.
Quelle: https://nimzowitsch.net/mein-system.html
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"Chess Fundamentals was first published thirteen years ago. Since then there have appeared at different times a number of articles dealing with the so-called Hypermodern Theory. Those who have read the articles may well have thought that something new, of vital importance, had been discovered. The fact is that the Hypermodern Theory is merely the application, during the opening stages generally, of the same old principles through the medium of somewhat new tactics. There has been no change in the fundamentals. The change has been only a change of form, and not always for the best at that. In chess the tactics may change but the strategic fundamental principles are always the same, so that Chess Fundamentals is as good now as it was thirteen years ago. It will be as good a hundred years from now; as long in fact as the laws and rules of the game remain what they are at present. The reader may therefore go over the contents of the book with the assurance that there is in it everything he needs, and that there is nothing to be added and nothing to be changed. Chess Fundamentals was the one standard work of its kind thirteen years ago and the author firmly believes that it is the one standard work of its kind now." – J. R. CAPABLANCA, New York, Sept. 1, 1934
Coffeehouse Repertoire is a 1.e4 player’s dream: an arsenal of ideas from a world-class grandmaster to surprise and confound your opponents, combining coffeehouse trickery with complete theoretical soundness. In Volume 2, GM Gawain Jones shows how to fight for an advantage against 1...e5, plus the French, Pirc, Modern, Philidor and other miscellaneous Defences, using lines which feature a potent combination of surprise value, objective soundness and practical effectiveness.
Coffeehouse Repertoire is a 1.e4 player’s dream: an arsenal of ideas from a world-class grandmaster to surprise and confound your opponents, combining coffeehouse trickery with complete theoretical soundness. In Volume 1, GM Gawain Jones shows how to put pressure on the Sicilian, Caro-Kann, Scandinavian and Alekhine’s Defences, using lines which feature a potent combination of surprise value, objective soundness and practical effectiveness. The Coffeehouse 1.e4 Repertoire will be completed in Volume 2, which covers 1...e5, plus the French, Pirc, Modern, Philidor and other miscellaneous Defences. Gawain Jones is an English grandmaster, twice British Champion and winner of the 2020 European Blitz Championship. He has defeated some of the world’s best players using the ideas recommended in this book.
Three masters recall their four decades as teammates from a strong New Jersey chess club.
Art of Sacrifice in Chess
Rudolf Spielmann’s The Art of Sacrifice in Chess, first published in the mid-1930s, was instantly recognised as a classic — the book that first tried to classify, systematically, the nature of the chess sacrifice. This is its 21st-century edition, with Spielmann’s original work preserved in full and brought to a modern audience.
Spielmann’s great idea was to distinguish the "real" sacrifice (where you give up material for an unclear, long-term return) from the "sham" sacrifice (where the material comes straight back). Around that he organises a whole taxonomy — sacrifices for development, line-clearance, deflection, king-hunts, the king’s field, the exchange and queen sacrifices — that still shapes how we understand the subject.
For this edition, German grandmaster Karsten Müller has done far more than modernise the notation: he has roughly doubled the book, adding chapters on the Greek Gift and the classic weak points (g7, f7, e6, f6), on the sacrificial magic of Tal and Shirov, on the fine art of defending against sacrifices, and a wealth of exercises to test what you’ve learned.
A timeless subject in an enriched modern package — instructive and hugely enjoyable for any club player who wants to attack with imagination and judgement.
For Lluis Comas Fabrego chess is about more than just winning as many games as possible, it is a creative search for the truth. In True Lies in Chess Comas Fabrego takes on the challenging task of separating the truth from lies in chess literature. Guided by many practical examples and clear advice, the readers will learn how to reduce the complexity of chess towards the essential features of each position, and so improve their play.
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